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    Structural features of fab fragments of rheumatoid factor IgM-RF in solution
    (Springer, 2008-05) Volkov, VV; Lapuk, VA; Shtykova, EV; Stepina, ND; Dembo, KA; Sokolova, AV; Amarantov, SV; Timofeev, VP; Ziganshin, RK; Varlamova, EY
    The structural features of the Fab fragments of monoclonal (Waldenstrom's disease) immunoglobulin M (I-M) and rheumatoid immunoglobulin M (lgM-RF) were studied by a complex of methods, including small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), electron spin resonance (ESR), and mass spectrometry (MS). The Fab-RF fragment was demonstrated to be much more flexible in the region of interdomain contacts, the molecular weights and the shapes of the Fab and Fab-RF macromolecules in solution being only slightly different. According to the ESR data, the rotational correlation time for a spin label introduced into the peptide sequence for Fab is twice as large as that for Fab-RF (21 +/- 2 and 11 +/- 1 ns, respectively), whereas the molecular weights of these fragments differ by only 0.5% (mass-spectrometric data), which correlates with the results of molecular-shape modeling by small-angle X-ray scattering. The conclusion about the higher flexibility of the Fab-RF fragment contributes to an understanding of the specificity of interactions between the rheumatoid factor and the anti-ens of the own organism. © 2008, Springer.